Your Dad sent me the news about your latest release. Great promo piece. Ceertainly makes me want to hear your latest. In perusing your website, I notice you’re expanding your range of performance sites. Living in Michigan, we often go to Ann Arbor to see performances at The Ark. I wrote them to recommend you as an artist, so perhaps they’ll contact you. Not sure how that works. It’s a wonderful, intimate venue that’s been around for 40+ years. They have alot of well-known folks and country artists who come through – Alejandro Escovedo, Marcia Ball, Cowboy Junkies, Richard Thompson, Bruce Cockburn, Greg Brown, Eliza Gilkyson, etc, etc. – but they also support rising artists just beginning the journey. If you have an interest, check out their web site. Good luck!

I’m also a sailor. It’s a lifestyle that is driven by that desire for freedom and the autonomy that you spoke of. We have this image in our minds that being a pirate is a life theft and brutality. And for some, it is. But piracy is born out of poverty and oppression. This reaches far beyond the stories that we seem to hear from time to time about ships being hijacked and held for ransom. Our souls have experienced this through our contact with negative media and other destructive influences. We routinely do what others expect us to do instead of following the path that our hearts have laid out for us. I’m as guilty of this as others. But a point arises in which one must take a stand. The greatest battle we will ever fight is the one to rescue our own humanity. And to do this, we must become ‘pirates’. We must declare our independence from that which has oppressed us. We must become the buccaneers that will captain our voyage to mental freedom. Until we do this, we are slaves to a society that embraces greed and inhumanity instead of peace and universal equality.

I salute you for doing this. One love.